{"product_id":"the-making-of-a-welfare-robert-walker-9781861342355","title":"The Making of a Welfare Class?: Benefit Receipt in Britain","description":"\u003cp\u003eOver the last three decades Britain has witnessed an unprecedented rise in the number of people receiving welfare benefits that has provoked fears of a growing underclass and mass welfare dependency.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e The making of a welfare class? provides the first comprehensive analysis of the reasons for this growth and subjects notions of welfare dependency and the underclass to empirical test. It focuses on four principal groups of benefit recipients - children and families, retirement pensioners, disabled people, and unemployed people - and, using important new evidence, explores the relative importance of economic, demographic, institutional and normative factors in the pattern of growth.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e The book addresses a phenomenon - growth in benefit recipiency - which is common to all advanced industrial countries and nowhere well understood. As a central focus of government policy and a key development in modern society, the issues explored in the book will therefore be of interest to academics and policy commentators alike.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Written in an accessible style and assuming no prior knowledge, with succinct chapters, elegant summaries and extensive use of graphics, complex arguments appear simple. A comprehensive glossary of technical terms is included. As a result, The making of a welfare class? is compulsory reading for undergraduates and postgraduate students of sociology, social policy and economics and anyone else interested in the development of modern British society and welfare policy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Robert Walker,Marilyn Howard\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1861342357\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781861342355\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Policy Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/27\/2000\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 368\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.13lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.76d","brand":"Robert Walker","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48445823680767,"sku":"9781861342355","price":38.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_df09c7d3-2e12-4c6d-84d5-835733f59f2d.jpg?v=1777220892","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-making-of-a-welfare-robert-walker-9781861342355","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}